STAC Report: LSI Nytro Warp Drive BLP4-800 with STAC-M3 Kx Systems kdb+

Baseline results of LSI PCIe-based SSD with Kx Systems kdb+ 3.1

2 May 2014 - New York

STAC has just tested another PCIe flash storage product as part of an ongoing initiative requested by the STAC-M3 Working Group. These products are tested in the STAC Lab under a tick data analytics workload in a consistent hardware and software environment. The results reside in the confidential STAC Vault and are available to qualified members of the STAC Benchmark Council.

In this case, LSI supplied us with 5 x 800GB LSI Nytro Warp Drive BLP4-800 storage devices. These SSDs resided in the PCIe slots of an IBM x3750 M4 server with four 8-core Intel Xeon E5-4650 CPUs. The software was Kx Systems kdb+ 3.1. Results are available for the baseline STAC-M3 tests (Antuco suite).

Qualified members of the STAC Benchmark Council can access the report here.

Qualified subscribers may also request to inspect or run the STAC-M3 Pack for kdb+ 3.1 (the q and k code for the kdb+ implementation) here.

For more information about STAC-M3, please see www.STACresearch.com/m3.